Daniel 2:25-35

25 Arioch took Daniel to the king at once and said, “I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who can tell the king what his dream means.”

26 The king asked Daniel (also called Belteshazzar), “Are you able to tell me what I saw in my dream and interpret it?”

27 Daniel replied, “No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about,

28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in days to come. Your dream and the visions that passed through your mind as you were lying in bed are these:

29 “As Your Majesty was lying there, your mind turned to things to come, and the revealer of mysteries showed you what is going to happen.

30 As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.

31 “Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance.

32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,

33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay.

34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them.

35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

Daniel 2:25-35 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DANIAL 2

The subject of this chapter is a dream which Nebuchadnezzar had dreamed, but had forgot; upon which he calls his magicians and astrologers together, to tell him it, and the interpretation of it; threatening them with death if they did not, and promising them great rewards and honour if they did, Da 2:1-6, they urge the unreasonableness of the demand, and the impossibility of the thing; which so highly incensed the king, that he ordered their immediate destruction, Da 2:7-13, Daniel and his companions being in danger, he goes in to the king, and desires time, and he would show him what he had dreamed; which being granted, he spent it in prayer to God, Da 2:14-18, and the thing being revealed to him, he gave thanks to God, Da 2:19-23, and being introduced to the king, he both told him his dream, and the interpretation of it; which concerned the four monarchies of the world, and the everlasting kingdom of the Messiah, Da 2:24-45, upon which he was highly honoured, and greatly promoted by the king, Da 2:46-49.

Cross References

• 1. S Deuteronomy 21:10
• 2. S Daniel 1:6; Daniel 5:13; Daniel 6:13
• 3. S Daniel 1:7
• 4. S ver 10; S Genesis 41:8
• 5. S Genesis 40:8; Jeremiah 10:7; Amos 4:13
• 6. S Genesis 49:1; Daniel 10:14; Matthew 24:6; Revelation 1:1; Revelation 22:6
• 7. Daniel 4:5
• 8. S Psalms 4:4
• 9. S Ezekiel 28:3; S Daniel 1:20
• 10. S Genesis 41:25
• 11. Isaiah 45:3; S Daniel 1:17; Amos 4:13
• 12. Habakkuk 1:7
• 13. Isaiah 25:3-5
• 14. S Job 12:19; Zechariah 4:6
• 15. S Job 34:24
• 16. ver 44-45; Psalms 2:9; S Isaiah 60:12; Daniel 8:25
• 17. Psalms 1:4; Psalms 37:10; S Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 41:15-16
• 18. Isaiah 2:3; Micah 4:1
• 19. Zechariah 12:3